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Days that shook the world. The complete first season plus the pilot

Call Number

  • DVD 904 D2759 (CEN)

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Edition

Widescreen version.

Languages

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Publication Information

[United States] : BBC Video ; Burbank, Calif. : Distributed by Warner Home Video, 2008.

Physical Description

2 videodiscs (770 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Rating: Not rated.

Summary

Through dramatic reconstruction, eyewitness accounts, and archival footage, each episode pieces together the stories of the moments in history - human tragedies, scientific breakthroughs, and calamitous events that have profoundly affected the world.

Contents

  • Pilot: First in flight: the Wright Brothers and the moon landing
  • The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and the death of Diana
  • The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and the death of Hitler
  • The assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the release of Nelson Mandela
  • Hiroshima
  • The murder of the Romanovs and the fall of the Berlin Wall
  • Kristallnacht and the birth of Israel
  • Tutankhamun's tomb and the Rosetta Stone
  • The first nuclear reaction and Chernobyl
  • Black September and Lockerbie
  • The assassination of JFK and the resignation of Nixon
  • Marconi's first transatlantic radio transmission and the Concorde's first transatlantic flight
  • Chuck Yeager and Bluebird.

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